Effects of Syntactic Complexity in Discourse Comprehension
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Comprehension deficits of spoken language have been widely described subsequent to damage to the left hemisphere (Nicholas and Brookshire, 1995). Research to date has primarily focused on comprehension of isolated words or sentences in persons with aphasia (pwa) (Yasuda, Nakamura & Beckman 2000). However, a few studies have suggested that pwa use heuristics (context and general knowledge) to facilitate understanding of discourse (Nicholas & Brookshire, 1995) and that, as a result, complexity factors such as word frequency and syntax do not influence comprehension of discourse as heavily as they do comprehension of sentences.
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